The Encounter

Chapter 2

Kendall's POV:

"Katie?" I called out for my sister. "Do you know where my new sunglasses are?"

"No!" She yelled back from downstairs.

"Shit."

Michael was going to arrive any minute. We had a lunch reservation at a restaurant and I was going to make us late for sure. After coming back from boot camp that I needed to attend in order to get ready for a movie I could use the small amount of time off. I'm just worrying about nothing, I mean they're sunglasses but I wasn't about to stop looking. Those things cost a fortune. The doorbell rang shortly after and Katie went to answer. I knew who it was, of course. It was Mike coming to pick me up.

"Oh, hey Mike. How are you?" I heard Katie say.

"Good, is your brother ready?"

"I think so, I think he's looking for his sunglasses thought."

"Kendall!" Mike yelled. "Lets go. We're gonna be late!"

My treasure hunt had to come to an end. I walked down to the front door and greeted Mike.

"Hey Mike, how are you, man?"

"Good. We better get going though." He said.

He and I went out and headed for his car. I was about to get into the passenger side when I heard Katie calling my name. I turned and saw her rushing towards us with my sunglasses in her hands.

"You found them?" I asked with excitement.

"They were by the door where you last left them." I took the shades from her and gave her a thank you kiss on the cheek.

"I'll see you later!" I yelled out of the car as Mike and I drove away from the two story house.

Damn L.A. traffic. I swear, if you ever make it to wherever it is you're going, it'll be a miracle.

"What are you listening to?" I asked Mike while I reached over to his side of the car, where the radio dials were.

"What are you doing? Eh?" He tried to slap my hand away from the scan button but I was too quick for him.

There was hardly anything good on until I heard the words " I I I WANNA GO O O O" being sung by the amazing Britney Spears. I love Britney. So, of course, I had to sing along.

We drove up to the restaurant and got out of the car and Mike handed the keys to a man in a red velvet vest, Mike and I walked into the waiting area of the place. Not many people waiting though. We got the front of the line and a waiter came up to the small booth in front of us. He looked fairly young, about 19 or 20 years old. Mike let him know that we had a reservation and he showed us to our table quickly after. The place was nice.

I had never been there so it was all new to me. We sat down and were handed some menus to look through. Everything was so fancy and mature. Don't get me wrong, every once in awhile I like to eat at a good restaurant but I would take home cooking over this any day.

I looked at our waiter's name tag to find see that his name was Logan.

"And you sir?" Logan looked over at me with his pencil and notebook in hand.

"You can call me Kendall." I told him. He actually looked into my eyes and not shied away like others would because they think you're untouchable.

"Okay, Mr. Kendall." He replied.

"No, just Kendall."

"Sorry... Kendall. What will you have?"

"Can I just get a mineral water?"

"Sure. Ill be right back to take your food order."

"Thank you." Mike and I said at the same time.

Our waiter left and we looked at the menus to see what we were going to have. Of course, everything was very pricey. Later on, the waiter returned and took our main orders.

"Here's one coke and one mineral water. Are you ready with your choice?" The waiter asked.

"Yeah, I'm gonna have the white pasta with chicken." Mike told him. He rapidly took the order down on his small order notepad.

"Good choice. And you Sir... I mean Kendall." He turned his attention to me.

Still, he made eye contact. "I'll just take a green spinach salad, thanks."

"Okay, I'll be right back with your orders."

The meal was great. I was sure as hell stuffed. I felt like I needed to open up the first button on my pants. Mike sat back in his chair and sighed.

"That was so good." He said.

"It was great. I haven't eaten a good meal since I had to go to that boot camp."

"Really? How was it there?" Mike asked.

"It was hell, fucking insane. The drill instructors were on top of everything that went on. They were, like, seriously in charge."

"Yeah? They whoop your pampered ass into shape?"

"Oh yeah." We both laughed.

After eating and talking for a little while after, we thought that it was time to go so Mike called for the check. I didn't want to him to pay the entire thing so I asked to half it. Surprisingly, it wasn't that much at all.

"Shit, we have to go, like, now." Mike said after he looked down at his watch.

I took my things off the table and left a small tip on the table then we went over to pick up his car from the valet. The drive home was short, traffic had died down, thank God. Mike dropped me off and we said our goodbyes.

Katie was on the phone with her boyfriend James when I walked into the house. She sat in the kitchen table happily talking to the phone receiver.

"Oh, Kendall. Mom said to call her as soon as you got home. Its urgent." Katie said while she put her hand over the phone's mouthpiece.

"Okay."

It's amazing because even though Katie and I are older now, we still get told by our mother to call her and let her know how things are going. That's a mom for you, right? I went up to my room to put my jacket away and reached down to get my phone out of my pocket.

"Holy..." My hand felt nothing. No phone. I felt around my other pockets then checked my jacket but there was nothing in them either. I started to panic then I remembered that I had placed it on the table while we were having lunch. I must have forgotten it.

"Oh no." I told myself. I ran down the stairs and told Katie what happened.

"Are you serious?" She asked.

"Yeah, I think I left it there."

"Did you check your pockets?"

"Yeah, I already did that." I said.

"Maybe you left it in Mike's car."

"Yeah, maybe I did. I picked up the house phone and quickly dialed Mike's cell phone number.

"Hey Mike? Its Kendall. Hey, did I leave my phone in your car?"

"No, I don't see it. Hold on."

I waited while he looked around. I hoped it was in his car. I imagined him telling me that it fell out of my pocket and onto the car floor but no such luck.

"Nope, its not here. Did you lose it?"

"Yeah, I think I might have left it at the restaurant."

"Oh man. You better call to disconnect it or something." He said.

"I know. I'm gonna make sure I didn't bring it with me first."

"Okay, well call me if you need anything."

"Cool, thanks. Bye."

After hanging up, I ran up to my room and looked in my jacket again.

Nothing. I called my cell from the house phone and waited to see if I could hear the ringtone. Nothing. I must have called a few more times and on the last call, I got a answer.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hello?" The man on the other end replied.

Just wanted to say thanks to tank602 for leaving my first review ever and to those who added my story to story alerts. I hope y'all like chapter 2 and don't forget to leave a review~